Improvement: Filesystem permission check

[ngrosc]

ISSUE TYPE

• Improvement Request

COMPONENT NAME

cloudstack-sysvmadm

CLOUDSTACK VERSION

N/A

CONFIGURATION

N/A

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Cloudstack running on linux systems

SUMMARY

Check filesystem permission before upgrading systemvms

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Currently, when issuing the cloudstack-sysvmadm script for upgrading the systemvms (or doing it manually), the process starts without any prechecks.
When there is somehow an issue with filesystem permissions, the new systemvm.iso cannot be copied to the new location. It would be a nice enhancement, when cloudstack had a health check or at least the cloudstack-sysvmadm script a permission check.

A newly introduced health check could continuously check some relevant cloudstack metrics, including the filesystem permissions and show a simple go/nogo somewhere in the admin ui. Or the simple way: a script or the modified sysvmadm script which checks first all storage paths for the correct rights.

EXPECTED RESULTS

ACTUAL RESULTS

[nvazquez]

Thanks @ngrosc - are you working on this improvement?

[SakshiT25]

Hi, I'm interested in working on this issue Kindly guide me for the further steps.

[DaanHoogland]

@SakshiT25 if you feel confident just create a PR and mention this issue with a line like

Fixes: #5686

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I can assign the issue to you if you say so.